The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
LOCAL and State Notes.

The Illinois Central announces that after Dec.
/ IL will adopt the com bined per diem and mile
age system for car service.
II. B. Hammond, president of the l.. D. & S.
road. will return to New York city this evening,
his wife accompanying him.
It comes from authoritative source that
Mr.. Thomas NJ. Ling, second vice president of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, Will resign the
latter part Of this week.
r. c. Newman who entered the employ of the
New York Central road in 1858, died at Syracuse
last week. He had held several responsible po-
sitions with the company
The g. St. L., in the last day or two, has de-
livered three heavy train-loads OF hogs to the c.
l., St. L. & G. road, for Cincinnati which were
shipped from Kansas City
Yesterday morning there were standing
side-tracks of the roads centerng here 542 car
loads of Indiana Goals OF this number BAT cars
were in the Vandalia yards.
Within the last sixty DAYS the Decline proper
has been improved OF placing in position 1.400
feet of new iron truss bridges, the spans varying
from 100 to $50 feet il length.
The sharp advance in the prices of the cereals
has almost totally checked shipments of grain.
Shippers all along the lines. expecting higher
prices. are holding on to their stocks
The Wabash, in connection with the l., D. e
s. road, is bringing hogs to this market pur-
chased in Oraha. Last week these roads
brought in 100 carloads from that point.
Benjamin Wells last Saturday completed his
fftieth years service ticket agent of the
PHILADELPHIA, Wilmington Baltimore road at
Elkton Station He is now seventy-three years
of age
The L., n. A. & C. are taking freight out of
here for Charlottesville and Lafayette, and a
feeling is spriu toward the road the part
of the direct lines of those points. The freight
is taken around via Monou.
The l.. B. & W. will place in position this
week $50 feet of new iron truss bridge. The
bridges of this company are now in excellent
condition. a great deal of work having been dole
them the last few months
J. W. Sherwood, former superintendent of
the c., L. St L. c.. has been offered
&5, 900 per annum official position the Atch-
isou. Topeka s. Santa Fe road, and it is said
will probably accept it. Men OF his ability and
genial ways always find positions open to them.
The New York Central has ordered five hun
dred of their freight equipped with the
continuous irbrake. which the Westinghouse
company has been exhibiting the country of
late and il is unde-stood that trains of the Lake
Shore road and of the line are to be equipped
with this brake as fast as practicable.
Michael Richard. locomotive engineer, and a
prominent member of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, has been appointed one of
the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New
York. Those who know him say that he is
very capable man, and has a life time acouaint-
ance with the practical side of railroading.
The failure Of the roads in this State and in
Ohio to secure their usual supply OF Pittsburg
coal for their locomotives has taught them
lesson-that is. that Indiana and Ohio have coal
mines which furnish good coal for steaming
purposes does PittsburC, and these Goals will
now come into more general use on Indiana and
Ohio roads
Positive announcements have been made that
the old VACATIONS Wabash embsrrassments and
all its financial difficulties have been settled,
and that the settlement will permit the road to
be managed in railroad fashion and in hasmony
with connecting roads. such as the Lake Erie 81
Western. where one can benefit the other equally
BY favorable traffic relations.
AS there is some talk as to what Charles Neil
son Will do should ne again be appointed super-
intendent of the Vandalis, an agent of the Van
oalia company asks the Journal to say that dur
ing his holding that position the Vandaia
every appointment made by Dir. Nelson a
promotion OF Van" boy, and that no senti-
ment out one OF respect exists along the line to-
ward him.
Free chair cars are doing much to demoraizs
rates Inc mania for using free chair car as
an Involvement TO ride over roads indulging in
this bad policy seems TO be spreading, and on
such roads q chair car longer exempts one
from the rabble. and in a short time the cars
will become shabby and worn aud uncleanly,
and the very object they introduced for
will be lost.
II. z. ingalls,, president of the c. L. ST L. &
c., accompanied by Stuyvesant Fish president
Of the Illinois Central road passed over the line
yesterday a special train, en- route for Chica-
60 Rumor has il that important railroad
deal in which the e., l., st. L. 81 c. is directly
interested is nearing com pletion. Whether the
trip of these officials over the road has ANYTHING
to do with the deal Is problem. The pointer
regarding the new deal last week was TO the ef-
feet that closer traffic alliances is IN be formed